Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize
The Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness (FSHI) Book Prize of £1,000 is awarded annually each September to the author(s) or editor(s) of the book making the most significant contribution to medical sociology/sociology of health and illness and having been published over the three years preceding 1st January of the year in which the award is made.
Nominations are closed.
- 2014 Winner: The Gene, the Clinic and the Family: Diagnosing Dysmorphology, Reviving Medical Dominance Joanna Latimer (Routledge 2013).
- 2013 Winner: Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science and the Genetics of Inequality Michael J Montoya. (University of California Press, 2011).
- 2012 Winner: Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare Nelly Oudshoorn. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
- 2011 Winner: The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects Roberto Abadie (Duke University Press, 2010).
- 2010 Winner: HIV Interventions: Biomedicine and the Traffic Between Information and Flesh. Dr Marsha Rosengarten. (University of Washington Press, 2009).
- 2009 Winner: Uncertainty in Medical Innovation - Experienced Pioneers in Neonatal Care Jessica Mesman. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
- 2008 Winner: HIV in South Africa. Corinne Squire. (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2007).
- 2007 Winner: Postmorten. How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths Stefan Timmermans (The University of Chicago Press, 2006).
- 2006 Winner: Suffering: A Sociological Introduction Iain Wilkinson. (Policy, 2005).
- 2005 Winner: The Politics of Personalised Medicine: Pharmacogenetics in the Clinic. Adam Hedgecoe. (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
- 2004 Winner: The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice Annemarie Mol. (Duke University Press, Durham NC and London).
- 2003 Winner: Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago Eric Klinenberg. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).
- 2002 Winner: Twice Dead. Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death Margaret Lock. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).
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